| Title: | Assessing the impact of chemical loads from agriculture holdings on the Puck Bay environment with the high-resolution ecosystem model of the Puck Bay, Southern Baltic Sea |
| Authors: | Dybowski, D., M. Janecki, A. Nowicki and L.A. Dzierzbicka-Glowacka |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Journal: | Water |
| Volume (Issue): | 12(7) |
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| Article ID: | 2068 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/w12072068 |
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| Model: | SWAT |
| Broad Application Category: | pollutant only |
| Primary Application Category: | model and/or data interface |
| Secondary Application Category: | pollutant cycling/loss and transport |
| Watershed Description: | Puck Bay drainage area, which drains to the Sea of Gdansk (and Baltic Sea) along the northern coast of Poland. |
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| Abstract: | This paper describes the ecohydrodynamic predictive model EcoPuckBay—the ecosystem
part—for assessing the state of the Puck Bay coastal environment and its ecosystem. We coupled the
EcoPuckBay model with the land water flow models (Soil andWater Assessment Tool (SWAT) for
surface water and Modflow for groundwater). To evaluate the quality of the results obtained from the
EcoPuckBay model, a set of basic statistical measures for dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll-a, nitrates, and
phosphates were calculated, such as mean, Pearson correlation coefficient (r), root-mean-square-error
(RMSE), and standard deviation (STD). The analysis presented in this paper shows that the
EcoPuckBay model produces reliable results. In addition, we developed a nutrient spread module
to show the impact of agricultural activity on the waters of the Puck Bay. The EcoPuckBay model
is also available in operational mode where users can access 60-h forecasts via the website of the
WaterPUCK Project through the “Products” tab. |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | 3D ecosystem model; nutrients; pesticides; Puck Bay; WaterPUCK |